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Absolute music (sometimes abstract music) is music that is not explicitly about anything; in contrast to program music it is non-representational. The idea of absolute music developed at the end of the 18th century in the writings of authors of early German Romanticism such as Wilhelm Heinrich Wackenroder Ludwig Tieck and E. T. A.

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